A reply to John Barry. Issue 3 (1st September 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Baker, Stephen
• Is Part Of: Global discourse. Volume 9:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 479
• Page End: 482
• Publication Date: 2019-09-01
• Subjects: loyalism -- flag protests -- Northern Ireland -- Britishness; International relations -- Periodicals; Political science -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Civilization, Modern -- 21st century -- Periodicals; 320.01
• DOI: 10.1332/204378919X15646702796185
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2326-9995

Abstract

Abstract : In his analysis of the loyalist flag protests of 2012, John Barry finds within them the potential for a civic, progressive politics beyond ethnic grievance; a post-conflict politics that need not be post-political; an agonistic politics of struggle and contestation that need not be violent. As a means to achieve this, John defends the need for single-identity/internal conversations within loyalism. In my reply, I am broadly supportive, but I suggest that such conversations cannot take for granted the continuation of the constitutional status quo.